| More than just an aesthetic problem, space junk can crash into satellites and endanger ships passing through on their way to deeper space. |
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| The more uncontrolled space junk floating around, the more dangerous orbital navigation through it. |
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| Astronauts Steven Swanson and Joseph Acaba said they did not worry about space junk when they're floating outside. |
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| Initially, the two countries planned to work together on the problem of space junk. |
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| We're keeping an eye on this space junk which is headed now for our planet. |
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| They replaced a camera on the Hubble telescope while working in an orbit littered with space junk. |
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| I don't know if it was some kind of Leonids preview, or if I just happened to see some space junk returning to earth. |
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| Chunks of space junk from a decommissioned satellite are about to crash land back on earth. |
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| The International Space Station is planning to change its orbit after narrowly avoiding two pieces of space junk last month. |
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| The bright light seen in the sky over Hawke's Bay on Wednesday night may have been space junk. |
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| A Windermere man believes a bright light he saw burning across the Bowness sky on Monday night could have been an asteroid or space junk. |
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| There may be over a million pieces of space junk currently orbiting the Earth. |
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| No one has any idea yet how many pieces of space junk were generated by the collision or how big they might be. |
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| Our algorithm determines the most efficient path to use for gathering all 18,000 pieces of space junk. |
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| Trash dumps, space fights, or mechanical breakdowns could all leave various sized pieces of often-viable space junk floating around. |
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| Hubble and Atlantis are flying in a 350-mile high orbit littered with space junk. |
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| Correlated targets are various types of space junk tracked and kept in Air Force computers while uncorrelated targets are unknowns. |
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| Though it has yet to take down a shuttle, space junk has caused real damage. |
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| A large piece of space junk falls to earth every 10-12 days. |
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| Will it join more than 9,000 pieces of sizable human-made space junk circling Earth? |
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| Slightly creepier: There's some unidentified space junk hurtling toward Earth, and it's going to hit us on 13 November — which is a Friday. |
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| Bits of space junk can collide with working satellites or other pieces of space junk, creating even more, and scattering it more widely. |
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| The pilot of the plane, which was flying from Santiago, Chile, to Auckland, New Zealand, reported seeing flaming space junk over the Pacific about five miles away. |
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| This late inspection ensures that there has been no impact damage from micrometeoroids or space junk during its docked operations or fly-around of the station. |
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| Pictures of pieces of space junk taken from the shuttle or space station usually show small pieces of material drifting slowly past, turning over and over. |
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| If needed, the crew could have used the same system to examine the Shuttle one last time while still docked to the station for possible micrometeorite or space junk damage. |
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| In January the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency unveiled an electrodynamic tether which, when tied to a piece of space junk, would cause it to slow down and fall into a lower orbit. |
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| The risk of space junk hitting a Soyuz capsule is much slimmer. |
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| How do you avoid all of the satellites and space junk up there? |
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| But, the most common cause of space junk is explosions. |
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